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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • A note about dating apps: most of them aren’t better than this. Their interest is keeping the user clicking, paying for services and coming back. If you find the right person for yourself, you will do none of that. So they:

    • build awful card stack systems with no search function
    • build superficial profile systems with no metadata about personality, habits or world views

    …and of course, with such systems, people fail to find suitable partners. They come back and pay, but society suffers, because someone needs to make money.

    I would vote for a politician who would promise that the ministry of health and social security will order a publicly funded dating site that’s built by scientists, with data privacy managed by the leading university in the country.




  • perestroika@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldMmm kale
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    2 months ago

    I came here to say that, but you got here first, so have my upvote. :)

    Recipe:

    • bucket of kale leaves, shredded by hand, rinsed
    • half a lemon’s juice
    • some teaspoons of salt
    • several tablespoons of deactivated / roasted / nutritional yeast
    • some teaspoons of your favourite spices (garlic / onion / paprica / tumeric / anything goes)

    To be mixed in a huge bowl and laid out into 2 food dryers. Sorry, I don’t have exact quantities, I always use both of my food driers. I run them at +70 C.




    • Because propaganda works. If propaganda didn’t work, companies would not advertise products and politicians wouldn’t run campaigns. Rich sponsors fund politicians who promise to look after their interests. Well-funded politicians run better campaigns and win.

    • Because politicians are, nearly without exception, above middle class, if not outright rich. They won’t act too radically against their own class interests.

    The only solution I know comes from ancient Athens. Sortition -> you hold a lottery to draw representatives. A few extremely stupid people will be drawn into parliament, but idiots are far better than sociopaths, and the current system gives undue representation to sociopaths (willing to climb over bodies if that gets them to power). If one then dislikes the idea of a considerable percentage of bumbling fools (as opposed to cunning predators) in parliament, one must feed everyone well, treat all childhood diseases and educate everyone as well as possible. As if their rational decisions were needed tomorrow.



  • perestroika@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldincredible
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    2 years ago

    No conclusive proof. It didn’t have a passthrough for one electrode of the two. It did have remains of acid inside and corrosion on the electrodes. One can speculate whether it was an experimental device, a faulty device or something else entirely (one alchemist trying to replicate another’s secrets and doing it wrong?).

    To add insult to the injury, it was lost or stolen during the war in 2003, so more analysis can’t be done until it gets re-discovered. :o

    I haven’t heard an alternative hypothesis, though… I try to imagine what else besides electrochemistry would one do with two dissimilar metals in an acid. It ruins the metals, it doesn’t make any known medicine or effective poison, it likely fouls the jug too… for a person to put copper and iron into a jug full of acid, there has to be a reason for doing it…